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Frequently Asked Questions about Tritium Disposal

Do Your Part - Keep Tritium Out of Our Landfills

Tritium can now be recycled!
The spent tritium contained in later model self-luminous exit signs can be "re-ignited" using our patented tritium enrichment process, thus creating new signs. Recycling used tritium helps keep this radioactive isotope out of landfills, which can leak into the ground and eventually our water table. Tritium that we cannot reuse is disposed in accordance with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations, and according to local, state, and federal regulations.
Read moreWhy people choose us?
- RGAs completed as quickly as 48 hours!
- NRC-Licensed recycling facility.
- Full customer protection from regulatory agencies.
- Save big when you buy replacement tritium or photoluminescent signs through Lighting Source.
- We dispose all tritium, from standard UL exit signs to mini aircraft models and even tritium watches!
About us
“DisposeTritium.com, operated by The Lighting Source LLC, is a California based lighting solutions company that focuses on boutique, client-based solutions for niche applications. This most certainly includes the recycling and disposal process for tritium powered self-luminous exit signs.
Emergency egress fixture & system design, compliance & regulation, and supply chain logistics are specialties of TLS. Offering almost every make and model available today, TLS creates cost-effective, efficient, and compliant emergency lighting and exit sign systems for domestic and international clients. Founder Evan Delaporte is a member of the UL 924 Standards Technical Panel as well as the National Fire Protection Association.
The Lighting Source is also a full-line lighting distributor for all major manufacturers including Cooper, Philips, and GE. For any other lighting needs, please call or email today.”
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More than 15,000 tritium exit signs disposed
TLS founder Evan Delaporte has recycled/disposed of more than 15,000 tritium exit signs in the last five years from Fortune 500 clients such as Target and The Home Depot. Whether it’s 1 sign or 100, the team at The Lighting Source will take the time to first educate you and your colleagues on the ins and outs of the disposal process.
Any and all questions are welcomed, and we look forward to making you feel comfortable with the entire process. Next, we will help you with each step including the shipping labels for getting your signs to the disposal facility.
Lastly, TLS will provide you with a manifest that shows, by line item, each disposed exit signs and its manufacturing details (serial number, make, & model). If there are ever any questions about disposal compliance/completion, this manifest will satisfy all of them.
Safe. Simple. Seamless.
That is what you can expect from www.DisposeTritium.com, operated by The Lighting Source LLC.

Evan Delaporte
Founder